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What  do  these  missionary  organiza¬ 
tions  ofnChurch  laymen  seek  to  do? 
'^i^e  answer  is:  To  teach  laymen 
the  life  habit  of  going  to  the  Churches 
work^  without  waiting  Jor  that  work 
to  go  to  them.  Can  this  lie  done/  It 
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You  desire  to  be  informed  about  the  Church's 
general  progress  and  prospects 


TAKE  FOEATT  MINUTES 

and  read  this  little  book  to  the  end.  Or  at 
least  take  5  minutes  and  read  the  head  lines. 
They  tell  the  same  Story  in  even  briefer  form. 


THE  CHURCH  GROWING 

in  Membership  and  Members  Increasing 

Their  Gifts 

LA  YMEN  ARE  HELPING  MISSIONS 

That  branch  of  the  Church  Catholic  known  in  law  as 
.the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United  States 
of  America  has,  within  the  limits  of  the  United  States, 
886,403  members.  The  gain  last  year  was  3  per  cent. 
During  the  three  decades  from  1870  to  1900  the  gain 
was  218  per  cent.  During  the  same  decades  the  popu¬ 
lation  of  the  United  States  gained  98.5  per  cent. 

During  the  eight  years  since  1900  the  Episcopal 
Church  increased  its  membership  by  185,000,  and  since 
1870  it  has  been  growing  in  membership  approximately 
as  much  each  decade  as  it  grew  in  all  the  decades  from 
the  planting  of  the,  Church  at  Jamestown  in  1607  down  to 
1870.  Here  are  growths  by  decades  to  1900  and  during 
the  past  eight  years: 


1830, 

30,939 

i860, 

146,600 

1890, 

509.149 

1840, 

55,427 

1870, 

220,000 

1900, 

699,582 

1850, 

79,986 

1880, 

344,789 

1908, 

886.403 

Financial  contributions  of  Episcopal  Church  members  last 
year,  to  all  causes,  amounted  to  $17,952,508.  Churchmen 

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in  the  foreign  Missionary  Districts,  and  in  Europe  gave 
last  year  $347, ocx),  but  if  gifts  of  Churchmen  within  the 
United  States  only  be  reckoned,  the  amount  per  member 
is  $20,  a  higher  sum  than  is  given  by  members  of  any  other 
religious  body  in  America.  About  seventy-five  per  cent  ot 
this  nearly  $18,000,000  is  expended  in  the  maintenance  of 
work  and  worship  attended  by  those  who  give  the  money, 
the  other  twenty-five  per  cent  to  the  poor,  to  Church  ex¬ 
tension  at  home,  to  spread  the  Gospel  abroad.  Contribu¬ 
tions  of  Church  members  have  more  than  kept  pace  in 
amount  with  increase  in  the  number  of  those  members.  For 
example,  the  total  contributions  in  1870  were  $4,200,000, 
but  in  1900  they  were  $13,000,000. 

To  maintain  the  Christian  work  of  all  America,  under 
every  name,  costs  not  quite  $300,000,000  a  year.  This  sum 
supports  public  worship,  erects  new  churches,  advances  edu¬ 
cation,  takes  care  of  the  poor,  and  maintains  all  missionary 
efforts  at  home  and  abroad.  Amounts  contributed  annually 
to  causes  that  are  strictly  missionary  are  $30,000,000. 
Christians  of  all  names  send  from  the  United  States  into 
foreign  lands  each  year  about  $9,000,000.  Christians  of 
England  and  Scotland  send  $11,000,000.  Christians  of  all 
other  countries  send  $2,000,000.  Of  money  contributed  to 
missionary  causes  by  Christians  of  the  United  States,  more 
than  $20,000,000  is  expended  on  missionary  work  at  home. 

In  the  United  States  in  January,  1909,  there  are  a  large 
number  of  things  that  give  the  Christian  enthusiast  hope. 
There  are  two  things,  at  least,  that  give  him  pause.  Saving 
the  hopeful  things  to  be.  mentioned  last,  the  discouraging 
things  are  the  lack  of  proportionate  growth  in  Sunday 
School  membership,  and  the  alarming  proportion  of  divorces 
to  marriages.  In  several  bodies,  the  Episcopal  among 
them,  Sunday  School  children  hardly  increase  in  numbers  at 
all.  The  proportion  of  divorces  to  marriages  is  one  in 
twelve !  It  adds  to  the.  disgrace,  but  must  be  recorded,  that 
this  showing  is  worse  by  far  than  in  any  other  nation  that 
counts  itself  civilized. 

Within  the  Episcopal  Church  some  of  the  encouraging 
things  are:  i.  A  better  feeling  between  Anglican  and 
Eastern  Orthodox  Churches.  2.  Larger  sense  of  responsi¬ 
bility  for  the  welfare  of  the  State,  the  growth  of  tempei- 
ance,  and  the  social  well  being  of  all  mankind.  3.  Lay- 

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men  being  more  willing  than  formerly  to  do  personal  work 
for  missions. 

Throughout  Christian  America,  all  forms  and  names,  the 
encouraging  things  include:  i.  The  formation  of  the  Fed¬ 
eral  Council  and  the  bringing  together  of  Protestant  Com¬ 
munions,  not  in  organic  but  in  working  union,  so  that  the 
day  of  Protestant  Church  dissensions  is  gone.  2.  A  week 
of  Prayer  that  is  observed  during  the  first  Week  in  Advent, 
as  the  old  one,  recommended  by  an  English  organization 
for  the  first  Week  in  January,  has  never  been.  3.  The 
Roman  Catholic  Church  in  America  no  longer  a  Missionary 
District  and  directed  from  a  foreign  city.  4.  The  opening  of 
Turkey  to  Christian  missionary  effort,  with  full  religious 
liberty,  and  the  awakening  of  China  to  moral,  social  and 
religious  reforms. 

PARISH  HONOR  ROLLS 

They  are  Filled  with  such  as  Give  most 
Work  and  Money  to  others. 

At  the  beginning  of  each  calendar  year  it  is  well  to  take  a 
survey  of  the  world  from  a  Christian  point  of  view.  It  is 
quite  well  to  remember,  in  that  connection,  two  things  that 
are  sometimes  forgotten.  One  thing  is,  that  if  next  year’s 
survey  is  to  be  more  profitable  than  this  one,  aggressive 
effort  is  essential.  The  other  thing  is,  that  the  place  to 
begin  aggressive  effort  is  with  ourselves.  Let  us  begin  a 
brief  study  of  Church  conditions  by  reckoning  ourselves  to 
be,  as  all  are,  a  necessary  part  of  some  congregation.  Par¬ 
ishes  are  congregations  which  have  places  of  work  and  wor¬ 
ship  in  comrhon.  A  parish  is  governed  by  a  rector,  wardens 
and  vestrymen,  and  supported  by  the  people  who  worship 
in  its  Church.  Parishes  are  grouped  into  Dioceses,  usually 
on  State  lines  but  some  large  States  are  divided  into  several 
Dioceses.  A  Diocese  is  governed  by  a  Bishop  and  a  Con¬ 
vention.  The  Bishop  is  elected  by  the  Convention,  and  he 
and  his  work  in  the  Diocese  are  supported  by  the  people  of 
the  Diocese. 

Each  parish  has  a  four-fold  financial  obligation:  i.  It 
must  maintain  its  work  and  worship.  2.  Bear  its  propor¬ 
tion  of  Diocesan  expenses.  3.  Assist  Church  extension  in 

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Its  city  and  Diocese.  4.  Contribute  to  the  spread  of  the 
Gospel  in  this  and  all  other  lands.  The  first  of  these  items, 
its  own  work  and  worship,  may  be  reckoned  money  expend¬ 
ed  on  itself ;  the  other  three  as  that  given  to  others.  A 
parish  roll  of  honor  is  therefore,  the  'proportion  of  the  latter 
to  the  former.  If  for  every  $1  that  a  parish  spends  on 
itself  it  gives  to  others  3  cents — strange  to  say  there  are  a 
few  such  parishes — it  may  be  said  that  such  parish  belongs 
on  the  roll  of  dishonor. 

The  average  for  the  whole  Church  is  $i  expended  on  its 
own  immediate  work  and  30  cents  given  to  others.  The 
record  for  America  not  only  in  the  Church  but  in  all  relig¬ 
ious  bodies,  is  held  by  St.  Thomas  Church,  New  York, 
with  St.  Bartholomew’s,  New  York,  a  close  second.  Last 
year  St.  Thomas  Church  expended  $44,000  to  maintain  work 
and  worship  at  the  Church  which  is  attended  by  its  givers, 
and  gave  to  others  $214,000.  That  is,  for  each  $i  expended 
upon  itself,  if  upon  itself  it  can  be  called,  it  gave  almost  $5 
to  charitable  and  missionary  causes,  wholly  beyond  its  own 
congregation. 

Some  parishes  elect  upon  their  vestries  one  man  who  is 
familiar  with  missionary  news  and  needs,  and  whose  par¬ 
ticular  task  is  to  speak  and  work  for  extra  parochial  causes. 
He  is  the  attorney  for  the  poor  and  the  heathen ;  the  guard¬ 
ian  of  the  interests  which  cannot  attend  and  plead  their  own 
needs.  If  the  parish  spends  $i  on  itself  and  gives  15  cents, 
for  example,  to  others,  he  seeks  always  to  increase  the  latter 
amount.  A  vestry  committee  reported  that  a  new  organ 
could  be  installed  for  $2,000.  The  o^der  was  about  to  be 
voted,  when  some  one  moved  that  the  price  be  made  $2,200. 
With  some  impatience,  the  organ  committee  chairman  re¬ 
stated  the  amount.  The  answer  was  that  at  least  10  cents 
must  go  to  causes  outside  of  the  parish  for  every  $i  that 
went  for  a  new  organ  or  else  the  vote  would  not  be 
unanimous.  The  amendment  was  accepted,  the  new  organ 
was  purchased  at  $2,200,  and  its  music  was  far  sweeter  be¬ 
cause  $200  had  gone,  to  others. 

Archdeaconries,  or  as  some  Dioceses  call  them,  Convoca¬ 
tions,  are  organizations  in  Dioceses  to  establish  new  churches 
and  maintain  weak  ones.  At  the.  head  is  an  Archdeacon 
or  Rural  Dean,  whose  duty  it  is  to  search  out  neighbor¬ 
hoods  wherein  the  Church  should  be  established,  and  the 
emplovment  and  oversight  of  missionaries.  Missions  are  so 

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called  because  they  are  supported,  wholly  or  in  part,  by 
funds  coming  from  others.  When  missions  are  able  to 
maintain  themselves  they  become  parishes  and  are  admitted 
to  union  with  the  Diocesan  convention.  Contributions  to 
Church  extension  work  in  Dioceses  here  in  the  Unitea 
States  are  quite  small.  In  all  Dioceses  they  amounted  last 
year  to  only  $180,000. 

There  is  a  Domestic  and  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  of 
which  every  baptized  person  in  the  Church  is  a  member.  It 
has  a  Board  of  Missions,  elected  by  the  General  Convention 
of  the  Church  at  its  meeting  every  three  years,  which  is 
charged  with  the  duty  of  spreading  information  concerning 
the  general  missionary  work  of  the  Church,  of  raising 
money,  and  of  administering  work  in  all  Missionary  Dis¬ 
tricts,  and  among  dependent  races  like  Indians  and  Negroes 
in  organized  Dioceses.  The  Board  of  Missions  is  composed 
of  Bishops,  priests  and  laymen,  an  equal  number  of  each. 

Missionary  Districts  are  groups  of  parishes  and  missions 
that  are  unable  to  bear  the  expense  of  their  own  administra¬ 
tive  and  extension  work.  Some  of  these  Districts  are  in 
our  own  South  or  West,  some  in  territorial  dependencies 
like  Hawaii  and  the  Philippines,  and  some  in  foreign  coun¬ 
tries.  Each  District  has  at  its  head  a  Bishop  elected  by  the 
General  Convention  and  supported  by  missionary  funds. 

DOING  EACH  HIS  PART 

What  Apportionments  are,  and  How  and 
By  whom  they  are  made. 

Vestries  of  parishes  make  annual  budgets.  Missionary 
committees  of  Dioceses  do  the  same.  The  Board  of  Mis¬ 
sions  makes  up  its  budget  each  May,  for  its  fiscal  year  Sep¬ 
tember  I  to  August  31.  In  parishes.  Dioceses  and  Board 
the  amounts  appropriated  are,  in  effect,  financial  obliga¬ 
tions.  If  worshippers  do  not  contribute  the  sums  needed 
money  has  to  be  borrowed,  or  the  work  suffers.  In  the  case 
of  the  Board  of  Missions,  on  which  work  in  many  parts  of 
the  world  depends,  appropriations  must  be  met,  or  the 
money  markets  must  help  out  with  loan  funds.  Recently, 
the  Board  has  provided  a  reserve  fund,  so  that  it  now  bor¬ 
rows  from  its  own  money,  when  it  must. 


Committees  of  Dioceses  divide  amounts  needed  for  Dio¬ 
cesan  extension  work  and  work  throughout  the  world  among 
the  parishes  and  ask  each  to  contribute  its  share.  This 
apportionment  is  not  a  tax,  but  a  statement  of  an  equitable 
share  of  the  entire  sum  to  be  raised.  Incomes  of  parishes 
are  taken  as  basis  for  amounts  asked.  In  older  and  wealth¬ 
ier  Dioceses  5%  per  cent  of  incomes  is  asked  for;  in  newer 
and  weaker  ones,  2^  per  cent 

Missionary  societies  conduct  their  financial  affairs  on  a 
most  economical  scale.  Hardly  a  business  house  gets  on 
with  so  few  bookkeepers.  The  amount  taken  out  of  each 
dollar  passing  through  a  Board’s  hands  to  pay  for  the  co^t 
of  administering  it  wisely,  varies  in  different  years,  but  in 
most  American  societies  it  is  from  4  to  6  cents.  In  the 
Church’s  Board  it  sometimes  reaches  8  cents,  but  the  Board 
handles  a  good  deal  of  money  as  specials,  for  which  it 
charges  nothing  for  administration.  Were  all  included,  the 
administration  cost  would  be  about  5  cents ;  a  showing  that 
will  compare  well  with  any  commerciil  house  in  the  world. 

Some  persons  become  interested  in  particular  forms  of 
work,  and  contribute  money  to  them.  These  are  called 
specials,  just  referred  to,  and  their  amount,  passing  annually 
through  the  hands  of  the  Board  of  Missions,  is  $300,000. 

Church  women  long  ago  organized  the  Woman’s  Aux¬ 
iliary  to  the  Board  of  Missions,  and  later  formed  the  Junior 
Auxiliary.  There  is  even  a  Babies’  Branch.  These  Aux¬ 
iliaries  have  societies  in  parishes  and  missions,  called 
branches.  These  branches  send  money  and  boxes  of  cloth¬ 
ing  in  liberal  contributions.  The  Woman’s  Auxiliary 
undertakes  to  contribute  to  the  Board  each  year,  to  apply 
on  the  latter’s  appropriations,  the  sum  of  $100,000. 

It  always  lays  by  certain  sums  each  year,  and  presents 
them  in  the  form  of  the  Woman’s  United  Offering.  The 
presentation  is  iwade  at  a  service  held  during  each  General 
Convention.  The  growth  of  this  Triennial  Offering  has 
been  marked.  In  San  Francisco  in  1901  it  passed  the 
$100,000  mark  amid  great  enthusiasm.  In  Boston  in  1904 
it  amounted  to  $150,000,  and  at  Richmond  in  1907  its  total 
was  $225,000.  For  the  most  part  these  United  Offerings 
are  used  to  support  woman  workers,  but  some  memorial 
buildings  have  been  erected  for  use  on  mission  fields. 

Some  years  ago  Sunday  School  children  began  to  make 

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offerings  each  Lent  to  world  missions.  Within  a  few  years 
some  Schools  have  added  the  practice  of  offerings  each 
Advent  to  missions  at  home.  These  offerings  by  Church 
children  have  increased  rapidy  each  year.  In  recognition 
of  work  well  done  a  Sunday  School  Auxiliary  to  the  Board 
of  Missions  has  been  created.  Last  Lent  the  children  gave, 
in  their  boxes,  $137,170  to  world  wide  missionary  effort. 

Very  important  parts  of  missionary  work  are  the  medi¬ 
cal,  the  educational,  and  that  for  dependent  races.  The 
medical  work  has  developed  hospitals  in  many  lands,  and  a 
corps  of  physicians  and  nurses.  It  is  a  valuable  adjunct  to 
the  spread  of  the  Gospel  because  it  teaches  the  science  of 
health ;  beacuse  it  is,  indeed,  the  Gospel  in  another  form, 
and  often  in  the  form  best  understood  by  those  who  would 
be  reached.  Educational  work  has  brought  into  existence, 
among  many  others,  St.  John’s  College,  Shanghai,  St.  Paul’s 
College,  Tokyo,  which  are  exerting  tremendous  influence 
upon  the  intellectual  and  political  life  and  development  of 
the  two  great  nations  of  the  Far  East.  Work  among  de¬ 
pendent  races  has  ^brought  into  existence,  among  many 
others,  St.  Paul’s  Industrial  School  at  Lawrenceville,  Va., 
St.  Augustine’s  School  at  Raleigh,  N.  C.,  for  colored  stud¬ 
ents,  and  the  splendid  schools  and  other  work  under  Bishop 
Hare,  in  South  Dakota. 


GENERAL  GIFTS  INCREASE 


Now  Almost  an  even  Million  Dollars  for 
Domestic  and  Foreign  Work. 


Contributions  of  Church  people,  made  through  the  Board 
of  Missions  to  support  work  within  the  United  States, 
steadily  increase  in  amount.  In  even  figures,  here  are  sums 
given  in  the  years  named.  They  do  not  include  special  gifts. 


1878,  $117,000 
t888,  207,000 

1898,  270,000 

1904.  359>ooo 


1905,  $419,000 

1906,  446,000 

1907,  418,000 

1908,  479,000 


This  money  is  used  in  part  as  follows :  For  work  in  the 
Missionary  Districts  and  in  the  newer  Dioceses,  wholly  in 

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our  own  West  and  South,  $175,000  a  year;  among  Indians 
and  Negroes,  $80,000  each ;  in  the  Philippines  $40,000,  Porto 
Rico  $13,000,  Hawaii  $10,000,  and  the  Panama  Canal  Zone 
$3,000.  The  number  of  workers  runs  into  the  hundreds, 
of  course.  Many  of  the  workers  are  teachers. 

The  Church  took  its  first  step  toward  work  in  foreign 
lands  by  sending  a  missionary  to  the  Christian  land  of 
Greece,  in  1829.  In  1834  it  appointed  the  first  missionary 
to  China  and  two  years  later  the  first  to  Africa.  In  1835 
the  China  work  was  begun  in  earnest,  the  first  in  heathen 
lands.  Following  immediately  upon  the  success  of  Com¬ 
modore  Perry,  himself  a  Churchman,  in  gaining  entry  into 
Japan,  work  was  begun  in  the  island  empire  of  the  Far 
East.  Before  the  Civil  War  the  foreign  work  of  the  Church 
had  gained  much  success,  the  South  leading  in  the  contribu  • 
tions.  The  War  well  nigh  broke  up  the  work.  Contribu¬ 
tions  to  that  work,  like  those  to  work  at  home,  steadily 
increase.  Here  are  amounts  for  a  series  of  years. 


1878, 

$109,000 

1905. 

$391,000 

1888, 

163,000 

1906, 

414,000 

1898, 

221,000 

1907, 

467,000 

1904, 

316,000 

1908, 

512,000 

These  amounts  are  expended,  in  part,  as  follows:  In 
the  two  Missionary  Districts  of  China  $131,000,  in  the 
two  in  Japan  $119,000,  in  Africa  $52,000,  in  Cuba  $22,000, 
in  Brazil  $27,000.  Eight  Bishops  American  born,  and  two 
Bishops  native  born,  are  in  charge  of  the  Church’s  work 
in  these  foreign  districts.  Native  priests  and  Deacons 
number  129.  In  all  foreign  fields  there  were  last  year 
2,409  baptisms,  and  1,361  confirmations.  After  work  that 
has  been  maintained  with  vigor  since  the  close  of  the  Civil 
War,  and  which  got  a  small  start  before  that  War,  the 
whole  number  of  communicants  of  the  Church  in  all  of 
its  foreign  fields  is  11,170.  There  are  201  elementary 
schools,  other  than  Sunday  Schools,  and  in  them  are  7,489 
pupils.  Institutions  for  higher  education  are  many,  and 
rank  among  the  foremost  of  the  institutions  of  the  coun¬ 
tries  in  which  they  are  located.  Contributions  by  native 
Church  people  in  all  of  these  foreign  fields  reached  a  total 
of  $107,000  last  year. 


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LAYING  FOUNDATIONS 


The  Church  Establishing  Itself  in  Thirty-two 

Districts 


UNITED  STATES  AND  ENGLAND 

LEADING 

In  the  Church  in  the  United  States  are  65  Dioceses,  fully 
organized  and  self  governing.  There  are  17  Missionary 
Districts  within  the  United  States  proper,  and  four  in  polit¬ 
ical  dependencies  or  territories.  There  are  eleven  Mission¬ 
ary  Districts  in  foreign  countries,  counting  the  Churches 
in  Continental  Europe  one.  The  mark  —  before  the  per¬ 
centage  indicates  loss. 

In  some  Districts  much  money  is  annually  expended,  and 
the  number  of  communicants  is  small.  Remember  that 
conditions  now  obtaining  in  Missionary  Districts  obtained 
in  years  past  in  the  East,  where  now  the  Church  is  strong. 
Older  work  must  help  the  new,  as  it  itself  was  helped. 
Membership  figures  by  no  means  tell  the  whole  story. 
Schools  are  supported  by  present  outlays,  and  foundations 
for  the  future  are  being  laid. 

The  first  column  of  money  in  what  follows  is  amount 
given  to  the  Missionary  District  at  present  to  support  its 
work.  The  second  column  shows  amount  given  by  the 
people  themselves  toward  their  own  support,  and  to  World 
Missions. 


District 

Bishop 

Members 

Growth 
last  year 

Given  to 
Them 

They 

Give 

Alaska . 

.  P.  T.  Rowe . 

841 

39,000 

6,141 

Honolulu .  . . 

.H.  B.  Restarick. 

1,205 

.  10 

10,000 

33,465 

Philippines. 

.  C.  H.  Brent . 

350 

39,000 

Porto  Rico. 

.  J.  H.  Van  Buren 

459 

•34 

13,000 

5,463 

Foregoing  are  in  territories  outside  of  the  limits  of  the 
United  States  proper.  The  following  are  within  the  United 
States,  and  some  of  them  are  nearing  entire  self  support. 

Arizona . J.  M.  Kendrick.  .  1,158  .04  3,500  14,029 

Asheville.  ...  J.  M.  Horner...  2,608  .03  0,000  31,424 

E.  Oregon... R.  L.  Paddock..  506  8,000  11.306 


District  Bishop 

Idaho . J.  B.  Funsten. .  . 

Nevada . H.  D.  Robinson. 

New  Mexico. J.  M.  Kendrick.  . 

N.  Dakota. .  .C.  Mann . 

Oklahoma.  . .  F.  K.  Brooke.  .  . 

Olympia . F.  W.  Keater. .  . 

Sacramento  .  .  W  H.  Moreland 

Salina . S.  M.  Griswold. . 

S.  Dakota.  . .  W.  H.  Hare . 

S.  Florida.  . .  W.  C.  Gray . 

SRokane . L.  H.  Wells . 

Utah . F.  S.  Spalding.. 

W.  Colorado. Vacant  . 

Wyoming.  . .  Vacant  . 


Member! 

Growth 
last  year 

Given  to 
Them 

They 

Give 

1,674 

12,000 

19,429 

1,081 

46,038 

i>539 

.  12 

4,000 

18,398 

2,056 

.04 

T  0,000 

30,985 

2.456 

.  TO 

10,000 

33,557 

5,222 

.  TO 

4,600 

82,485 

2,900 

7,900 

45,425 

1,014 

.04 

8,000 

22,120 

6,101 

-.02 

38,000 

38,733 

3,985 

.06 

10,000 

42,440 

2,109 

6,000 

35,918 

1,075 

10,000 

23,003 

844 

9,626 

1.514 

11,853 

Missionary  Districts  in  foreign  lands. 


W.  Africa.  .  .S.  D.  Ferguson.  . 
Shanghai.  . .  .F.  R.  Graves.  . .  . 

Hankow . L.  H.  Roots.  ,  .  . 

Tokyo . J.  McKim . 

Kyoto . S.  C.  Partridge.  . 

Cuba . A.  W.  Knight.  .  . 

Mexico . C.  S.  Aves . 

Brazil . L.  L.  Kinsoving. 

Panama . 

Europe . 

Haiti . J.  T.  Holly . 


2,434 

•03 

38,000 

$12,236 

790 

•13 

68,000 

2,328 

1,171 

•13 

65,000 

2,991 

T556  ■ 

•03 

73,000 

5.400 

1,248 

.09 

60,000 

4,117 

1,172 

.27 

25,000 

20,512 

1,986  • 

-.01 

23,000 

17,189 

1,036 

.06 

31,000 

8,139 

652 

T,447 

.08 

8,000 

271,713 

711  ■ 

-.09 

2,510 

The  work  in  the  Panama  Canal  Zone  is  in  charge  of  an 
Archdeacon,  and  that  on  the  Continent  of  Europe  in  charge 
of  a  Bishop  deputed  from  time  to  time  by  the  Presiding 
Bishop.  It  is  expected  that  an  early  meeting  of  the  House 
of  Bishops  will  be  held  for  the  purpose  of  electing  Mission¬ 
ary  Bishops  for  Western  Colorado  and  Wyoming. 


The  oldest  Christian  missionary  society  in  the  world  is 
the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign 
Parts,  formed  in  England  for  work  in  English  colonies, 
and  since  broadened  into  a  general  society.  It  was  this 
Society  which  founded  so  many  missions  in  America  (Trin¬ 
ity,  New  York,  among  them),  that  are  now  famous  as  great 
parishes.  The  largest  Christian  missionary  organization  in 

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the  world  is  the  Church  Missionary  Society,  having  work 
in  many  parts  of  the  world,  and  supported  by  members  of 
the  Church  of  England.  The  oldest  society  in  America  is 
the.  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions.  The  great  volunteer  organization  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  is  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the 
Faith,  with  headquarters  formerly  in  Paris,,  but  lately 
transferred  to  Rome.  Most  great  societies  of  England  do  ' 
work  in  foreign  lands  only.  The  Episcopal  Church  in 
America  does  both  home  and  foreign  work  through  one 
Society,  but  almost  all  other  bodies  have  different  societies 
or  boards  for  the  different  work.  The  great  Christian  mis¬ 
sionary  nations  are  Great  Britain  and  the  United  States. 
Christian  nations  of  Continental  Europe  do  little  beyond 
their  own  borders. 


TTVO  JVAYS  TO  DO  IT 

Missionary  Methods  That  Obey  Scientific 

Laws 

THE  WAY  JESUS  CHRIST  DID 

The  Church  is  growing  in  number  of  communicants,  and 
in  influence  upon  America  and  the  world.  Much  money  rs 
contributed  annually  for  its  support  at  home  and  its  exten¬ 
sion  at  home  and  abroad.  The  amount  of  this  money  annu¬ 
ally  increases.  The  income  of  the  Church’s  Dome-tic  and 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  has  doubled  within  ^he  past  six 
years.  Speaking  in  a  language  that  the  business  man  can 
understand  it  is  a  worthwhile  proposition.  But  as  in  the 
world’s  affairs,  much  yet  remains  to  be  done.  Tn  taking 
hold  of  these  tasks  which  still  confront,  two  policies  may 
be  pursued. 

I.  Strengthen  more  and  more  a  central  organization. 
Add  to  the  number  of  salaried  secretaries,  increase  the  bud¬ 
get  of  travelling  and  office  expenses,  multiply  the  number 
of  returned  missionaries  to  make  appeals,  increase  the 
amount  and  ex^pense  of  illustrated  literature,  and  plan  mas.s 
meetings  in  distant  cities,  with  famous  speakers,  in  a  never- 
ending  attempt  to  arouse  men  to  do  their  dnty.  Permit 
appeals  by  separate  organizations  which  labor  for  the  poor, 

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the  Negro,  the  Indian,  for  education,  and  a  half  dozen  more 
of  special  interests.  Finally,  elect  Bishop  and  Rector 
because,  so  it  is  reported,  they  have  peculiar  gifts  for  mak¬ 
ing  others  contribute,  money. 

2.  Raise  up  societies  of  men  in  parishes,  in  cities,  in  Dio¬ 
ceses,  who  themselves  study  the  Church's  economic,  mis¬ 
sionary  and  educational  problems,  and  intelligently  adminis¬ 
ter  them  in  their  own  parishes,  cities  and  Dioceses.  The}' 
sympathetically  consider  all  causes  having  claims  upon 
them,  select  such  as  have  the  strongest  claims  and  that 
contribute  most  to  the  comprehensive  and  world-wide  cam¬ 
paign,  and  set  about  meeting  needs  without  waiting  to  be 
asked.  Induce  men  in  each  city — the  city  is  the  economic 
centre — to  come  together  once  a  year  and  consider  their 
common  duty  to  their  parishes,  to  Church  extension  in  sub¬ 
urbs  and  near-by  towns,  to  the  spread  of  the  Gospel  in  all 
the  world.  Train  men  to  give  systematically  as  to  time, 
and  intelligently  as  to  cause.  Teach  that  there  are  no  mis¬ 
sions  in  China,  or  even  in  our  own  West,  but  that  the 
Church  is  in  these  and  other  parts  of  the  world,  as  she 
ought  to  be,  and  that  missions,  if  they  exist  at  all,  are  in 
the  hearts  of  Christian  men  and  women. 

When  Saul  journeyed  to  Damascus  he  met  some  one  who 
said  He  was  Jesus.  The  conversion  of  Saul  was  an 
exceedingly  important  matter.  Think  what  hung  in  the  bal¬ 
ance.  Jesus  Vv^as  and  is  the  Source  of  all  spiritual  power. 
Read  the  story  as  related  in  The  Acts  and  see  whether  Jesus 
used  His  power  and  completed  the  task.  Had  He  done  so 
He  would  have  shown  ignorance  cf  an  economic  law.  Note 
that  He  went  only  far  enough  to  inspire  the  conversion. 
Then  He  called  in  another  to  complete  it.  He  did  not  Him¬ 
self  go  to  Straight  Street,  but  left  the  initiatwe  with  the  men 
in  the  house  in  that  street.  The  lessons  are  that  the  cen¬ 
tral  Authority  did  not  exercise  its  power ;  that  Christ  had 
confidence  in  men,  even  in  one  man,  Ananias,  who  said  he 
was  not  equal  to  the  tasl: ;  and  that  Jesus,  taking  care  to 
stop,  St.  Paul  spiritually  turned  about  and  came  to  Him. 

The  tasks  are,  in  future,  to  be  taken  hold  of  in  the  eco¬ 
nomic  way :  as  Christ  did  missionary  work.  Those  tasks 
are  so  great  in  number,  and  so  far  reaching  in  effect,  that 
no  one  ought  to  conclude,  upon  perusal  of  what  has  been 
accomplished,  that  there  remains  no  call  to  himself  and 
his  offerings.  And  what  are  those  tasks? 

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ALL  THE  JVORLD 
CALLS! 

SHALL  IVE  HEED  ? 


There  ought  to  be  established  a  college  whose  faculty  is 
an  itinerant  one.  On  its  endowed  foundations  should  be 
chairs  of  Christian  Missions,  the  English  Bible,  Religious 
Education,  and  Christian  Social  Service.  President  Gar¬ 
field  said  that  a  college  consists  of  Mark  Hopkins — presi' 
dent  of  Williams  when  Garfield  was  a  student  there. — on 
one  end  of  a  log  and  a  boy  on  the  other.  Dioceses  and 
cities  wherein  the  Church  is  weak  can  furnish  the  log  and 
the  boy.  V/hat  they  need  is  the  Hopkins,  especially  a  Hop¬ 
kins  who  can  inspire  laymen  to  work,  for  in  her  lahy  the 
Church  possesses  a  vast  and  almost  undeveloped  resource. 
They  need  as  well  one  who  can  teach  others  to  teach  the 
English  Bible,  for  young  men  are  coming  up  to  our  uni¬ 
versities  shamefully  ignorant  of  the  Word  of  God. 

The  United  States  is  becoming  a  nation  of  cities.  The 
Gospel  must  possess  the  cities  or  it  will  not  possess  the 
nation.  Debts  on  Church  property  must  be  paid  off  and 
interest  payments  stopped.  The  down  town  problem  must 
be  met.  Suburbs  demand  attention.  The  number  of  new 
churches  is  governed  far  more  by  the  number  of  workers 
than  it  is  by  the  number  of  Episcopalians.  Land  ought  to 
he  purchased  and  held.  There  is,  however,  a  field  far 
larger  than  suburbs  of  our  own  city.  It  is  the  suburbs  of 
all  cities.  Chicago  is  the  greatest  foreign  and  the  greatest 
home  mission  field  in  America.  There  are  the.  Rocky  Moun¬ 
tain  regions.  There  is  the  vast  north-west.  Into  Oregon 
alone,  that  undeveloped  empire,  might  well  be  poured  all 
present  contributions  to  domestic  missions. 

As  a  Government  we  are  discharging  fairly  well  our 
political  obligations  to  the  Philippines  and  other  depend¬ 
encies.  The  Church  owes  the  people  of  these  dependen¬ 
cies  no  less  a  debt  than  its  best.  Latin  America  needs  a  pime 
Gospel.  The  African  in  Africa  presents  problems,  but  the 
African  in  America  presents  a  crisis.  China  wakes  up  and 

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asks  for  God’s  Word.  Turkey  opens  her  doors,  closed  for 
hundreds  of  years  by  Mohammedan  error.  St.  John’s  Col¬ 
lege,  Shanghai,  that  Harvard  of  China,  and  St.  Paul’s 
College,  Tokyo,  that  Yale  of  Japan,  together  helping  to 
revolutionize  the  Far  East,  need  $500,000,  and  need  it  imme¬ 
diately.  Shall  Africa  have  a  Christian  civilization?  The 
answer  rests  in  part  with  Church  laymen  of  America. 

As  if  these  were  not  tasks  enough,  there  is  the  one  of 
bringing  the  Church  into  closer  touch  with  social  life,  into 
legislative  halls,  into  Wall  Street,  into  railroad  management, 
into  the  factory,  u’pon  the  farm.  The  crops  of  the  United 
States  are  annually  worth  $7,500,000,000.  Who  sees  to 
it  that  God  gets  His  share  of  this  vast  wealth  which  He 
bestows  ?  He  trusts  us ;  and  we  neglect  His  work  or  leave 
appeals  to  be  made  by  our  rectors.  Finally,  and  in  some 
resJpects  more  important  than  all,  there  is  the  question  of 
new  men  for  the  Christian  ministry.  Our  Church  has  only 
2  more  clergy  than  she  had  last  year  and  17  fewer  candi¬ 
dates  for  Holy  Orders. 


WITH  LAYMEN’S  HELP 

The  Episcopal  Church  can  take  the  World 

for  Christ. 

One  morning  last  August,  under  some  trees  on  the  bank 
of  the  Housatonic  River,  in  the  Berkshire  Hills  of  Con¬ 
necticut,  the  Rev.  Arthur  S.  Lloyd,  D.D.,  General  Secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Church’s  Domestic  and  Foreign  Missionary 
Society,  met  laymen  from  twenty-one  cities.  Among  other 
things  he  said  to  them  were  these  things : 

‘‘Once  men  realize  their  responsiblity  to  reach  out  and 
touch  their  brethren  who  know  not  the  Father,  and  no 
longer  wait  for  representatives  of  missionary  societies  to 
come  to  them  with  appeals  that  they  do  so,  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  can  take  the  earth  for  Jesus  Christ. 
She  has  the  courage,  the  ability,  the  money.  All  that  is 
needed  is  that  laymen  shall  realize  that  they,  and  not  the 
clergy,  are  the  responsible  agents. 

“There  is  nothing  the  matter  with  the  Church’s  mis¬ 
sionary  work  in  the  fields.  The  trouble  is  with  the  Church 

14 


at  home.  Men  wait  to  be  appealed  to  by  rectors  for  parish 
support,  and  by  secretaries  for  support  of  work  at  home 
and  abroad,  as  if  they  did  not  know  that  this  enterprise 
is  their  own  and  must  be  maintained.  If  men  would  only 
put  system  into  their  Church  allegiance,  look  into  the  merits 
of  various  forms  of  work,  decide  what  they  will  give  each 
year,  and  then  give  it  without  being  asked  to  do  so,  they 
would  be  surprised  at  the  result. 

“Laymen  ought  to  organize  tmder  leadership  of  laymen. 
The  clergy  have  their  special  work.  Leave  them  free  to 
do  it.  Don’t  fear  for  the  etiquette  of  the  situation.  Eti¬ 
quette  will  take  care  of  itself.  Laymen  of  the  Church 
can  be  trusted.  They  will  observe  and  obey  constitution 
and  canons,  and  pay  all  needed  deference  to  Bishops  and 
other  clergy.  You  ask  if  organizations  of  laymen  ought 
to  be  official.  Emphatically  no.  Let  laymen  be  free  to 
try  new  plans.  Shall  the  Board  of  Missions  take  charge 
of  a  campaign  for  men  and  missions?  The  Board  needs, 
not  more  work  but  more  help.  Ought  the  Board  to  manage 
Summer  and  City  Conferences  It  is  my  judgment  that 
it  ought  never  to  do  so,  and  that  both  for  the  good  of  the 
Board  and  the  welfare  of  the  conferences. 

“There  is  nothing  to  fear  from  the  cry  of  over  organiza¬ 
tion.  Much  work  is  now  left  undone  because  there  is 
nobody  to  do  it.  Let  laymen  organize  and  do  it.  The 
Church  in  England  is  more  thoroughly  organized  than  that 
in  America.  Too  little  is  done,  for  Church  extension  in 
suburbs  of  growing  cities.  Let  laymen  in  all  cities  take 
hold  of  it  as  have  laymen  in  some  cities.  Too  much  of  the 
energy  of  the  Board  of  Missions  is  consumed  in  appealing 
to  the  Church  at  home;  compelled  to  do  so  because  other¬ 
wise.  the  Church,  and  especially  the  laymen,  forget  and 
fail  to  provide  supplies  for  the  Church’s  real  work  in  the 
world.  How  fine  it  would  be  if  the  Board  might  keep  its 
face  always  to  the  front,  having  the  Church  solidly  behind 
it !  And  such  will  be  the  case  when  laymen  come,  to  the 
Board  with  offers  of  help,  and  so  set  it  free  from  wasting 
its  energy  and  your  money  persuading  them  to  provide 
means  for  work  which  all  agree  must  be  done.” 

It  ought  to  be  asked  by  the  reader,  What  do  these  Church 
laymen  seek  to  accomplish?  In  its  briefest  form,  To  teach 
laymen  the  life  habit  of  going  to  the  Church’s  work  with¬ 
out  waiting  for  that  work  to  go  to  them.  If  this  epigram 

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needs  explanation  let  this  be  added:  To  train  laymen  to 
discharge  their  duty  of  work  and  gifts,  a.  For  parish  sup¬ 
port  and  advance ;  b.  For  Church  extension  in  suburbs  of 
their  own  cities;  c.  For  world  mission,  without  waiting  to 
be  appealed  to  by  rectors,  archdeacons,  missionary  secre¬ 
taries  and  returned  missionaries. 

If  great  aims  are  ever  realized  definite  action  must  be 
taken  to  that  end.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  such  action 
in  religious  matters  is  usually  taken  in  cycles,  and  that  the 
same  movements  are  common  to  the  United  States  and 
England.  One  hundred  years  ago  were  formed  the  mis¬ 
sionary  societies,  now  grown  so  great.  Fifty  years  ago 
the  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association  had  its  beginning. 
Twenty-five  years  ago  came  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew 
and  the  Church  Clubs,  with  the  corresponding  Christian 
Endeavor  Society  in  other  bodies. 

The  Brotherhood’s  aims  are  to  encourage  personal  and 
regular  prayer  to  spread  Christ’s  kingdom  among  men,  and 
personal  and  systematic  work  to  the  same  end.  It  grew 
out  of  a  young  men’s  Bible  class  in  St.  James’  Church,  Chi¬ 
cago,  and  has  now  grown  to  a  membership  of  twelve  or 
fourteen  thousand  men  in  this  country  alone.  There  is 
a  Junior  Brotherhood,  and  there  are  autonomous  Brother¬ 
hoods  in  Canada,  England,  Japan  and  some  other  countries. 

The  Brotherhood  is  a  national  organization,  with  chap¬ 
ters  in  parishes  and  missions.  As  a  way  to  carry  out  its 
rule  of  service  the  Brotherhood  has  led  in  the  holding  of 
noonday  meetings  in  down  town  sections  of  cities  during 
Lent,  encouraged  men  to  volunteer  as  lay  readers  to  Arch¬ 
deacons  for  Church  extension,  and  last  year,  co-operating 
with  Brotherhoods  in  other  bodies,  it  established  what 
seems  to  be  a  successful  Week  of  Prayer.  The  new  date  is 
the  first  week  in  Advent. 

Church  Clubs  in  cities  and  Dioceses  began  with  the  New 
York  Church  Club  in  1887,  from  which  time  the  present 
Church  Club  movement  dates.  There  are  now  Clubs  in  most 
cities  and  Dioceses,  and  a  National  Conference  or  federa¬ 
tion.  The  aims  are  social  and  literary,  and  within  the  year 
there  has  been  a  movement  to  extend  their  usefulness,  al¬ 
ready  great.  There  are  also  i  parish  Men’s  Clubs  along 
similar  lines,  and  in  many  cities  federation  of  them,  in 
some  cases  for  civic  betterment  and  the  'presentation  of 
public  questions. 


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Christian 
Service 
That  Counts 


Your  Chance  to  do  Much  fVork 
fVtth  Little  Money 

Wanted,  two  thousand  members  of  the  Church  Laymen’s 
Union.  Joining  with  us  in  our  work  you  make  it  possible 
for  us  to  reach  a  larger  number  of  men  and  arouse  their 
hearts  to  new  missionary  interest.  The  annual  membershi]) 
fee  is  $5.  This  fee  is  for  individuals,  parish  Men’s  Clubs 
or  Guilds,  and  missionary  societies  in  cities,  any  names. 
As  far  as  its  amount  warrants,  money  from  membership 
fees  is  used — 

1.  To  support  a  Chair  of  Missions,  whose  occupant  visits 
principal  cities,  as  invited  by  Bishops,  rectors  and  laymen, 
to  confer  about  work  by  laymen  in  those  cities;  the  initial 
chair  in  what  may,  with  God’s  blessing,  become  a  college 
that  has  an  itinerant  faculty,  and  is  known,  it  may  be,  as 
CHRIST  CHURCH  SEMINAR. 

2.  To  support  a  Chair  of  the  English  Bible,  whose  occu¬ 
pant  teaches  others  to  teach  the  Bible  and  conducts  paro¬ 
chial  missions,  staying  in  one  city  for  a  month  or  more,  and 
then  going  to  another  city;  the  second  chair  in  the  proposed 
College. 

Especially  will  occupants  of  these  chairs  go,  if  invited, 
into  Dioceses  and  Missionary  Districts  where  the  Church 
is  not  strong,  and  where  laymen  are  unable  to  provide 
teachers. 

3.  To  maintain  a  Church  Summer  Conference  where, 
besides  an  ideal  vacation,  leaders  from  many  cities  and 


Dioceses  meet  Bishops,  Archdeacons,  secretaries  of  Mis¬ 
sion  Boards,  and  each  other,  inspire  and  arouse  by  personal 
acquaintance,  interchange  successful  methods,  and  map 
out  co-ordinated  campaigns. 

4.  To  print  and  put  into  the  hands  of  Church  laymen 
copies  of  the  annual  Church  Mission  Hand  Book  and  other 
literature,  brief  in  form  for  busy  men,  and  calculated  to 
stimulate  them  to  action  and  to  instruct  them  to  work  in¬ 
telligently  and  successfully. 

Membership  in  the  Church  Laymen’s  Union  is  confined 
to  men,  and  appeal  for  membership  herewith  made  is  not 
addressed  to  women.  At  the  same  time  there  are  many 
women  who  are  interested  in  the  Church  Summer  Confer¬ 
ences,  and  who  may  desire  copies  of  the  annual  Hand  Book. 
All  such  are  invited  to  contribute  to  Conference  and  print¬ 
ing  funds,  and  to  receive  copies  of  the  Hand  Book  for  dis¬ 
tribution. 

When  remitting  membership  fee  ask  for  copies  of  this 
Church  Mission  Hand  Book  for  1909  to  put  into  the  hands 
of  Church  laymen.  Select  names  carefully  and  ask  only 
for  such  number  of  copies  as  can  be  used  to  real  advantage. 
Enclose  10  cents,  stamps  taken,  for  postage  if  the  number 
asked  for  be  twenty-five  or  under.  If  more  than  this  num¬ 
ber,  it  is  preferable  to  send  by  ecxpress,  receiver  to  pay 
charges.  Exjpress  charges  on  printed  matter  are  small.  If 
envelopes  for  mailing  are  desired,  remit  at  rate  of  i  cent 
each. 

This  Hand  Book  sacrifices  much  to  brevity.  It  is  made 
for  busy  men.  Many  matters  of  tremendous  importance 
are  treated  in  few  words.  It  is  impossible  to  do  otherwise. 
All  who  desire  missionary  literature,  either  from  Mission 
Boards  or  purchased  from  publishers,  are  invited  to  apply 
to  the  editor.  It  is  especially  desired  to  give  assistance  to 
mission  study  classes,  teachers  and  members. 

Every  man  who  reads  this  is  urged  to  secure  without 
delay  the  Journal  of  the  Convention  of  his  Diocese,  the 
annnual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Missions,  and  either  the 
American  Church  Almanac  or  the  Living  Church  Annual. 
Having  any  or  all  of  them,  he  is  urged  to  study  them  with 
care,  especially  the  financial  statements  and  the  objects 
for  which  financial  appeals  are  made.  For  addresses 
through  which  to  secure  these  publications  apply  to  your 
rector,  or  write  to  the  editor  of  this  Hand  Book. 


Parish 

Loan 

Library 


A  ‘Book  that  Aien  will  read 


Mr.  JOHN  A.  ELY,  Ass’t  Treas., 

23  Union  Square,  New  York. 

Enclosed  please  find  check  for . 


Annual  Membership  Fee 

1909 

For  . - . - . - . 


In  the  Church  Laymen^s  Union 


We  want  . Copies  of  the  Church  Mission  Hand 

Book,  - . .  envelopes,  and  promise  to  use  them  as  a 


Mission  Library  among  men;  or  at  least  see  they  are  put  into 
hands  of  men  who  ought  to  be  better  informed  about  the  work 
of  the  Church. 

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Date .  . 

You  are  invited  to  join  the  Church  Laymen’s  Union. 
You  are  also  asked  to  move,  at  its  next  meeting,  that  your 
parish  Men’s  Club  or  Guild  join.  The  fee  is  $5.  a  year. 

Make  draft,  money  order  or  check  payable  to  John  A. 
Ely,  assistant  treasurer,  Church  Laymen’s  Union,  23  Union 
Square.  New  York. 

Do  it  now ! 


Following  are  Readers,  members  of  Missionary  Organizations,  leaders  in  the  Church 

in  this  city,  with  whom  any  movement  in  the  Church  that  seeks  to  extend  personal  volunteer 
work  for  missions  ought  to  be  in  touch.  Some  are  men,  some  women,  and  all  are  interested,  in 
some  measure,  in  missions  in  their  broad  sense,  viz.  as  the  Hand  Book  outlines. 


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M^hat  City? 


Men  of  Each  City,  Attention! 

DEFINITE 

OUTLINES 

OF  WORK 

For  LAYMEN 

What  Form  Fits  You  ? 

If  organized,  what  is  there  for  laymen  of  a  given  city 
to  do?  Do  not  existing  organizations  prosecute  all  lines 
of  work  open  to  them,  or  if  they  do  not,  may  they  not 
undertake,  the  few  that  remain,  and  so  avoid  a  fancied 
multiplication  of  organizations?  Here  follow  twelve  sug¬ 
gestions  for  work  that  is  peculiarly  the  privilege  of  laymen 
to  perform.  If  on  their  own  initiative  they  take  hold  and 
do  it,  they  will  be  attacking  the  work  from  the  right  end. 
The  suggestions  are  for  laymen  of  a  given  city,  all  par¬ 
ishes,  including  those  in  adjacent  towns. 

1.  A  society  or  committee  of  men,  fitted  by  tempera¬ 
ment  and  training,  to  foster  money  gifts  and  system  in 
benevolence :  a.  For  the  support  of  parishes ;  b.  For  relief 
from  present  debts ;  c.  For  the  purchase  of  sites  and  the 
erection  of  new  Churches ;  d.  For  apportionments  to  mis¬ 
sions  ;  e.  For  adequate  salaries  for  clergy. 

2.  A  committee  to  study  the  temperaments,  qualifications 
and  resources  of  young  men  of  the  city  who  may,  perhaps 
ought  to,  be  persuaded  to  study  for  Holy  Orders.  A 
growing  Church  has  17  fewer  candidates  for  the  ministry 
in  1908  than  she  had  in  1907.  As  there  are  tithes  of  money 
gifts,  so  there  are  tithes  to  the  Sacred  Ministry  from 
cities.  Who  is  it  who  now  sees  that  your  city  furnishes  its 
just  proportion  of  young  men  to  be  educated  and  set  apart 
for  God’s  work? 

3.  A  corps  of  men  to  speak  for  missions,  their  news  and 
needs.  Returned  missionaries  are  often  out  of  touch  with 
conditions  at  home,  and  there  are  too  few  of  them  that 
all  may  hear  them.  Missionary  literature,  admirable  to 

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follow  the  .spoken  word,  is  poor  propaganda.  The  unin- 
terested  will  not  read  it.  In  all  cities  are  men  who  like  to 
do  'public  speaking.  In  all  are  parish  Men’s  Clubs,  con¬ 
gregations  and  missionary  organizations  in  constant  need 
of  good  speakers.  An  organized  bureau,  with  speakers 
on  all  forms  of  work  at  command  for  winter  evenings, 
what  possibilities  are  now  going  to  waste! 

4.  A  Men’s  Missionary  Society  in  each  parish,  to  have 
charge  of  details  of  missionary  meetings,  including  care 
that  some  such  meetings  be  held;  to  elect  one  member  on 
the  vestry,  perhaps  to  convert  some  vestrymen  to  missions; 
to  raise  apportionments  to  missions  and  see.  that  money  is 
sent  to  treasurers  as  soon  as  raised ;  to  increase  the  propor¬ 
tion  of  money  sent  outside  of  the  parishes  to  that  expended 
upon  its  own  needs;  in  short,  to  inform  every  member  of 
the  parish  concerning  the  work  of  the  parish,  and  especially 
the.  finances  of  the  parish  and  its  performances  and  prom¬ 
ises  to  missionary  causes,  and  make  it  unnecessary  for  rec¬ 
tor,  archdeacon  or  missionary  secretary  ever  to  ask  for 
money  from  pulpit  or  chancel  steps,  because  all  that  ought 
to  be  given  is  given  without  being  asked  for! 

5.  Church  extension  in  suburbs  of  growing  cities  and 
in  towns  tributary  to  them.  Some  laymen  do  admirable 
work  as  lay  readers,  but  Church  extension  consists  of  much 
more!  Study  of  land  values,  of  street,  school  and  trolley 
extensions,  finances,  economics  of  new  work  to  old.  Bish¬ 
ops  and  archdeacons  are  appealing  for  help. 

6.  The  Church  owes  boys  and  girls  a  liberal  education 
in  the  English  Bible,  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  in 
Church  history  and  missions,  just  as  the  State  owes  them 
the  same  in  secular  matters.  The  State  provides  school 
houses,  superintendents  of  education,  trained  instructors, 
institutes  and  summer  schools.  Where  is  organized  and 
adequate  effort  to  enable  the  Church  to  provide  the  same? 

7.  Thousands  of  men  will  attend  a  religious  service  if 
held  out  of  doors  who  will  not  enter  a  Church  because  it 
is  a  Church.  All  cities  contain  magnificent  cathedrals  that 
stand  unused.  A  splendid  floor,  a  beautiful  vaulted  roof, 
light,  heat,  seats,  men!  That’s  Union  Square,  New  York, 
and  every  other  public  park  in  every  other  city,  seven  days 
each  week,  six  to  seven  months  each  year.  The  Cathedral 
of  St.  John  the  Divine,  New  York,  offers  no  more. 


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8.  The  labor  question,  the  poor,  the  sick,  the  wayward 
boy,  the  unemployed,  the  city  and  national  governments: 
these,  offer  sociological  and  civic  opportunities  for  the 
Church  to  perform  that  for  which  she  was  placed  in  the 
world.  In  your  city  what  body  of  Church  laymen  makes 
it  its  business  to  see  that  the  Church  avails  herself  of  these 
opportunities  or  even  makes  a  study  how  she  may  do  so? 

9.  Summer  conferences  for  leaders.  Other  bodies  long 
ago  realized  the  value  of  such  gatherings.  The  Church 
might  well  provide  three  to  six  such  locations,  central  to 
large  areas.  The  influence  of  these  meetings  is  tremem 
dous.  They  provide  opportunity  for  the  planning  of  a  com¬ 
mon  campaign,  for  workers  to  meet  Bishops,  missionary- 
secretaries  and  other  leaders,  for  inspiration  and  informa¬ 
tion.  From  all  points  of  view  they  justify  their  cost. 

10.  A  Church  House  in  the  business  centre  of  the  city, 
to  be  for  the  city  what  Exeter  Hall  was  to  London  for 
so  many  years,  viz. :  a  place  where  gatherings  were  almost 
daily  held  for  the  betterment  of  the  City,  the  State,  the 
World.  The  House  might  contain  offices  for  Bishops  and 
Church  organizations,  a  hall  for  Diocesan  Convention  and 
public  meetings,  and  rooms  for  social  purposes,  wherein 
a  common  acquaintance  may  be  cultivated.  In  Advent  and 
Lent  noon  meetings  should  be  held.  It  may  be  remarked 
incidentally  that  South  of  Chambers  street.  New  York 
city,  for  an  hour  daily  six  days  each  week,  are  150,000 
men — the  greatest  field  in  the  world  in  which  to  reach  men ! 

11.  Schools  are  needed  to  train  laymen  to  work  intelli¬ 
gently  and  effectively.  Bible  teachers,  Sunday  School 
superintendents,  missionary  speakers,  lay  readers,  evan¬ 
gelists  for  outdoor  meetings,  mission  study  classes — why 
has  the  Church  waited  so  long  before  establishing  such 
jchools? 

‘  12.  The.  Missionary  Councils  -  of  the  First,  Second  and 

Third  Departments  appeal  to  men  of  each  principal  city  in 
their  respective  Departments  to  plan  and  hold  Missionary 
Conferences  in  their  respective  cities  annually.  Such  Con¬ 
ferences  might  consider:  a.  What  was  done  last  year;  b. 
What  ought  to  be  done  next  year ;  c.  Who  will  do  it.  It 
should  come  to  be,  not  a  force  from  without,  trying  to 
arouse  men  of  the  city  to  do  their  duty,  but  a  power  from 
within  which  reaches  out  and  touches  work  of  the  city, 
the  diocese,  the  world. 


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LATEST  PLANS 
FOR  PROGRESS 

Good  toward  others  and  a 

Proper  Care  for  our  own  Pur  dens 

SUNDAY  SCHOOL  COMMISSIONS 

A  new  cycle  of  time  has  come,  and  has  brought  new 
movements  with  it.  The  past  half  dozen  years  have  seen 
mighty  strides,  and  these  strides  give  large  promise  for 
the  future.  Thirty-three  Protestant  bodies,  having  eighteen 
million  members,  and  adherents  of  many  millions  more, 
making  a  total  of  more  than  half  the  population  within 
the  United  States,  are  represented  in  a  Federal  Council  of 
the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America.  The  Council  is  a  bod} 
of  450  men.  It  is  without  power  to  legislate  for,  or  even 
to  advise  concerning,  the  internal  affairs  of  Protestant 
bodies.  All  such  bodies  have  all  power  they  ever  had.  It 
is  a  Council  that  advises  and  sometimes  acts  along  common 
lines  of  Sabbath  observance,  uniform  laws  governing 
divorce  and  remarriage,  religious  education  in  schools,  tem¬ 
perance,  the  immigrant  and  his  instruction  in  American 
ways,  and  that  very  vital  matter  the  avoidance  of  duplica¬ 
tion  of  effort  in  fields  at  home  and  abroad. 

The  Episcopal  Church  is  allied  with  this  Council  through 
its  Commission  on  Christian  Unity.  The  Church  led  in  the 
movement  which  brought  so  much  of  union  to  pass. 
Twenty-five  years  ago  it  presented  four  propositions  as  iDasis 
for  unity,  three  of  which  were  generally  accepted.  These 
propositions  were  famous  as  the  Lambeth  Quadrilateral. 
Whatever  their  disposition,  discussion  of  them  did  much  to* 
make  possible  present  conditions  in  Protestant  bodies  in 
America. 

Within  the  Episcopal  Church,  of  quite  recent  birth,  are 
Sunday  School  Commissions  and  the  Church  Laymen’s 
Union.  The  Commissions  have  accomplished  much  for 
advance  in  religious  education  of  youth.  They  exist  in 
nearly  all  Dioceses,  and  there  is  a  Sunday  School  Federa¬ 
tion  of  national  scope.  There  are  23,000  ooo  children  in 
the  United  States  of  public  school  age.  About  14,000,000 

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are  enrolled  in  religious  schools  of  some  name.  In  the 
Episcopal  Church,  as  in  some  other  bodies,  the  growth  of 
Sunday  School  membership  does  not  keep  pace  with  the 
growth  of  Church  membership.  During  the.  past  ten  years 
Church  schools  have  hardly  increased  at  all.  The  number 
of  pupils  in  Church  schools  this  year  is  reported  to  be 
436,000.  But  the  number  reported  by  the  same,  authority 
m  1900  was  439,000,  four  years  ago  434,000,  and  two  years 
ago  441,000. 

The  suggestion  has  been  widely  made, that  public  schools 
dismiss  pupils  on  one  afternoon  each  week,  preferably 
Wednesday,  and  that  religious  schools  be  provided  hy 
Christian  bodies.  There,  is  a  growing  conviction,  shared 
by  Protestant  as  well  as  Roman  Catholic,  that  a  public 
school  which  does  not  teach  a  Gospel  of  any  sort  is  inade¬ 
quate. 

CHURCH  LAYMEN’S  UNION 

Workers  of  Twenty-seven  Cities  with 

Common  Plans. 

The  Church  Laymen’s  Union  is  a  federation  of  Church 
laymen’s  missionary  organizations  in  principal  cities.  Its 
aims  are  to  bring  workers  into  touch,  to  exchange  suc¬ 
cessful  methods,  to  co-ordinate,  effort,  to  teach  Church  eco¬ 
nomics,  and  to  publish  literature  concerning  work  by 
Church  laymen  to  advance  the  missionary  work  of  the 
Church  at  home  and  abroad.  Laymen  of  Pittsburg,  Buf¬ 
falo,  Baltimore,  and  New  York  led  in  forming  the  Union, 
and  there  are  now  federated  in  it  the  Laymen’s  Missionary 
Leagues  of  Pittsburg,  Buffalo  and  Baltimore,  the  Lay 
Readers’  Association  of  Louisville,  the  St.  Philip  Society 
of  Syracuse,  the  St.  Mark’s  League  of  Wheeling,  and  Sea- 
bury  Societies  of  Erie,  Springfield,  Bridgeport  and  New 
York.  Laymen  in  Worcester,  Providence,  New  Haven, 
Jersey  City,  Amsterdam,  Binghamton,  Rochester,  Cleveland, 
Toledo,  Detroit,  Marietta  and  Parkersburg  are  studying 
conditions  in  their  respective  cities. 

The  Church  Laymen’s  Union  has  a  Council,  composed 
of  three  laymen  in  each  of  twentv-five  cities,  in  which 
efforts  by  Church  laymen  in  behalf  of  personal  work  for 

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missions  is  well  advanced.  Chairmen  of  Council  members 
in  the  cities  are: 

John  E.  Morse  Worcester;  B.  A.  Oppenheimer,  Spring- 
field  ;  Clarence  W.  Foote,  Bridgeport ;  George  J.  Bassett, 
New  Haven;  H.  H.  Hemingway,  Waterbury;  Clarence  S. 
McClellan,  Jr.,  Mt.  Vernon;  Louis  O.  Morny,  New  York; 
Frederick  N.  Esher,  Jersey  City;  C.  Julian  Wood,  Hack¬ 
ensack  and  the  Oranges. 

Julian  Du  Bois,  Amsterdam ;  Myron  C.  Beeman,  Bing¬ 
hamton  ;  Herbert  D.  Schenck,  M.D.,  Brooklyn ;  W.  B. 
Foote,  Geneva;  J.  A.  Van  Ingen,  Rochester;  George  T. 
Ballachey,  Buffalo;  Chas.  S.  Shoemaker  Pittsburg;  W.  W. 
Robertson,  Norfolk;  Earl  C.  Schmeiser,  Syracuse;  Benja¬ 
min  L.  Lathrop,  Scranton ;  Malcolm  McCormick,  Erie : 
Samuel  R.  Sague,  Cleveland. 

Louis  Bartlett,  Toledo;  William  R.  Davies,  Detroit; 
Robert  Lee  Boyd,  Wheeling;  J.  A.  Galleher,  Marietta; 
C.  M.  Martin,  Parkersburg.  The  president  of  the  Union 
is  Eugene  M.  Camp,  New  York;  the  Secretary,  George  T. 
Ballachey,  Buffalo:  Treasurer,  Harvey  H.  Smith,  Pitts¬ 
burg,  and  the  Assistant  Treasurer,  John  A.  Ely,  23  Union 
Square,  New  York. 


A  CHANCE  TO  COME  IN 

You  are  invited  to  join  the  Church  Laymen’s  Union. 
You  are  also  asked  to  move,  at  its  next  meeting,  that  your 
parish  Men’s  Club  or  Guild  join.  The  fee  is  $5.  a  year. 

When  remitting  membership  fee  ask  for  copies  of  this 
Church  Mission  Hand  Book  for  1909  to  put  into  the  hands 
of  Church  laymen.  Select  names  carefully  and  ask  only 
for  such  number  of  copies  as  can  be  used  to  real  advantage. 
Enclose  10  cents,  stamps  taken,  for  postage  if  the  number 
asked  for  be  twentv-five  or  under.  If  more  than  this  num¬ 
ber,  it  is  preferable  to  send  by  express,  receiver  to  pay 
charges.  Ex^press  charges  on  printed  matter  are  small.  If 
envelopes  for  mailing  are  desired,  remit  at  rate  of  i  cent 
each. 

Make  draft,  money  order  or  check  payable  to  John  A. 
Ely,  assistant  treasurer,  Church  Laymen’s  Union,  23  Union 
Square,  New  York. 

Do  it  now! 


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A  RECORD  OF  RESULTS 

Church  Extension,  Summer  Conferences, 
Trained  Speakers  and  Schools. 

V olunteer  Missionaries 

Bishop  Whitehead  'of  Pittsburg  and  Bishop  Coxe  of 
Buffalo  first  organized  laymen  of  their  see  cities,  and  gave 
them  the  work  of  Church  extension.  Both  Bishops  had  it 
in  mind  to  take  the  ste’p^  having  seen  the  value  of  lay  co¬ 
operation  during  visits  to  England,  but  it  would  seem  that 
Pittsburg  got  into  working  shape  a  little  earlier  than  Buf- 
lalo.  Both  were  pioneers  in  the  movement,  and  both  were 
at  the  front,  'active  and  enthusiastic  after  nearly  twenty 
years  of  successful  work,  in  the  forming  of  the  Church 
Laymen’s  Union,  aimed  to  extend  the  work  to  other  cities. 

Pittsburg  laymen  have  helped  to  establish  no  fewer  than 
twenty-eight  congregations.  Property  accumulations 
amount  to  the  large  sum  of  $310,000.  Fields  occupied  are 
the  growing  settlements  and  city  suburbs  of  Western  Penn¬ 
sylvania.  The  League  has  just  started  a  School  to  train 
laymen,  and  it  is  leading  in  a  project  to  erect  a  Church 
House  in  the  business  part  of  Pittsburg,  to  contain 
Bishops’  rooms,  offices  of  the  Diocese,  a  public  hall,  and 
reception  rooms. 

In  some  respects  the  work  of  the  Buffalo  laymen  has 
been  harder  than  that  of  most  others.  Towns  of  Western 
New  York  and  upon  the  Cattaraugus  Indian  reservation 
have  not  always  welcomed  the  coming  of  the  Church. 
The  League’s  work  has  also  been  in  Buffalo  public  insti¬ 
tutions,  an  especially  difficult  field.  The  League  has  inspired 
and  aided  the  building  of  Churches  in  Springville,  Silver 
Creek,  Irving,  Gowanda,  Depew  and  among  the  Indians, 
and  has  just  permanently  located  St.  Clement’s  Church  in 
the  Kensineton  district  of  Buffalo.  Its  members  now  num¬ 
ber  thirty-five,  and  they  read  from  800  to  1,000  services 
a  year. 

New  York  laymen  have  established  seventeen  congrega¬ 
tions,  and  seven  of  the  seventeen  are  now  self  supporting 

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parishes.  Six  others  own  their  own  properties,  four  ot 
them  free  from  debt.  The  Seabury  Society  conducts  the 
Summer  Conference  and  the  Men’s  Stag  Outing,  the 
Church  Workers  Comimons,  a  school  to  train  laymen,  a  corps 
of  speakers  about  missions,  and  has  lately  taken  its  share, 
in  a  movement,  with  Bishop  Greer  at  its  head,  to  co-ordinate 
the  v/ork  of  laymen  of  New  York  City,  and  especially  to 
make  it  of  larger  service  to  the  Bishop  and  his  plans. 

Louisville  laymen  have  helped  Bishop  Woodcock  in 
Church  extension,  to  raise  the  Diocesan  apportionments, 
and  to  hold  an  annual  Church  Conference.  Encouraged 
by  Bishop  Paret,  Baltimore  laym.en  have  served  many  mis¬ 
sions  and  parishes  as  lay  readers,  and  are  just  now  under 
instruction  by  the  Bishop  in  a  Church  School,  attended  by 
thirty  to  forty  men.  They  had  the  splendid  help  of  the 
Rev.  G.  Mosely  Murray,  general  missionary,  who  has  just 
resigned  to  go  to  Arkansas. 

Springfield  laymen  had  at  the  start  the  inspiration  and 
leadership  of  the  Rev.  William  T.  Dakin,  rector  of  St. 
Peter’s  Church  in  their  city.  They  gave  a  new  impetus 
to  Church  extension  in  Springfield,  and  have  helped  to 
bring  into  existence  four  successful  missions.  Bridgeport 
laymen  helped  in  Lent  services  in  a  down  town  location 
last  year.  Syracuse  laymen,  just  organized,  have  held  one 
public  meeting,  conducted  services  at  the  Shelter  for  LFn- 
protected  Girls  and  supplied  readers  for  four  missions.  A 
mission  is  now  projected  in  a  town  five  miles  out.  Some 
sessions  of  a  school  have  been  held.  Erie  laymen  have 
begun  services  in  the  southern  'part  of  their  city,  and  Wheel¬ 
ing  laymen,  just  organized,  will  help  by  taking  Sunday  ser¬ 
vices  in  weak  parishes. 

New  York  and  Louisville  laymen  have  led  in  co-ordina¬ 
ting  lay  effort  in  their  respective  cities.  Upon  invitation  of 
the  Seabury  Society,  of  New  York,  given  in  the  spring  of 
1908,  there  came  together  committees  representing  the 
Church  Club  of  New  York,  the.  Bronx  Church  Club,  the  Fed¬ 
eration  of  Parish  Men’s  Clubs  in  Manhattan  and  Richmond, 
the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew  and  the  Junior  Clerg\^ 
Missionary  Association.  A  committee  was  appointed  to 
'^^ait  upon  Bishop  Greer  to  secure  his  approval  of  the  step, 
and  to  tell  him  that  men  of  New  York  desire  to  be  of  larger 
sendee  in  the  work  of  the  Church.  A  meeting  was  held 

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in  Synod  Hall  in  May,  addressed  by  Bishop  Greer,  and 
attended  by  five  hundred  men. 

Last  November  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  formed  a  cen¬ 
tral  committee,  representing-  all  organizations  of  men,  other 
than  parochial,  with  himself  at  its  head.  A  second  meet¬ 
ing  was  held,  attended  by  nine  hundred  men.  A  third  is 
planned  for  next  April.  To  the  central  committee  Bishop 
Greer  stated  that  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New 
York  is  in  session  two  days  each  year  and  every  moment 
is  taken  up  with  official  business.  There  is  needed,  said 
he,  another  convention  or  conference,  composed  of  men 
and  meeting  once  a  year,  unofficial  and  enthusiastic,  to 
whom  the  Bishop  and  others  can  bring  the  attention  of 
new  plans,  and  through  whom  information  can  be  spread 
and  public  opinion  formulated. 


ANNUAL  COUNCIL 


It  Hears  Reports  for  One  Year  and  Makes 

Plans  for  Another. 


Under  the  leadership  of  Bishop  Woodcock,  laymen  of 
Louisville  have  gone  farther  in  effective  co-ordination  than 
any  other  city.  So  general  and  yet  so  specialized  is  the 
central  organization,  called  the  Laymen’s  League,  that 
every  Church  layman  who  is  willing  to  work  can  be  fur¬ 
nished  with  something'  worth  while  and  within  his  ability 
to  do.  No  organization  has  been  wiped  out,  nor  had  its 
scope  dwarfed.  Four  times  a  year  there  are  conferences 
of  all  workers,  and  once  a  year  a  general  Council  with  a 
mass  meeting,  a  dinner  and  a  survey  of  the  whole  field. 
Organizations  working  in  the  League  are:  Lay  Readers, 
Sunday  School,  Missions,  Church  Literature  and  Publicity, 
Clergy  Aid,  Church  Institutions,  Brotherhood  of  St. 
Andrew,  Medical,  Employment,  Finances,  and  Records  and 
Statistics.  Most  of  these  explain  themselves  by  their 
names,  but  it  may  be  further  stated  that  Lay  Readers  help 
in  Church  extension,  the  Missions  help  to  raise  appor¬ 
tionments,  the  Publicity  employ  the  daily  newspapers  to 
keep  the  Church’s  work  in  the  public  mind,  and  the  Church 
Institutions  keep  hospitals  and  charities  before  the  Church. 

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The  Literature  Department  has  just  established  a  library. 
The  Sunday  School  Committee  has  almost  revolutionized 
religious  education,  in  the  Diocese,  so  successful  have  been 
its  efforts.  The  president  of  the  League  is  a  layman,  W.  E. 
Pilcher. 

TRAINING  FOR  LAYMEN 

Schools  in  Each  City,  With  Week  Night 
Classes  and  Practice. 

BEST  MISSIONS  START  SMALL 

Schools  to  train  laymen  to  work  have  just  been  established 
in  four  American  cities.  These  schools  are  the  first  of 
their  kind  in  the  world.  The  Church  Workers  Commons, 
begun  in  Christ  Church,  New  York,  in  January  of  last 
year,  was  a  success  from  the  start.  The  other  three  schools 
are  in  Baltimore,  Pittsburg  and  Syracuse,  and  are  on  the 
same  lines.  Faculties  are  found  among  clergy  and  laymen 
of  the  city,  but  men  of  more  time  at  command  ought  to 
be  provided  by  a  college  the  faculty  of  which  is  an  itin¬ 
erant  one,  and  available  for  a  few  weeks  each  year  at 
these  schools.  Classes  are  held  on  Sunday  afternoons  and 
week  nights.  Instruction  covers  the  reading  of  the  Prayer 
Book  service,  including  voice  culture,  the  preparation  and 
delivery  of  Bible  readings  and  missionary  addresses,  includ¬ 
ing  audiences  to  criticise,  the  history  of  the  Church  and 
of  the  Prayer  Book,  the  superintendence  and  conduct  of 
Sunday  Schools,  Mission  Study  classes.  Church  finance, 
constitution  and  canons  of  the  Church,  Church  economics, 
especially  the  economics  of  Church  extension,  and  Chris¬ 
tian  socialism. 

Practice  is  afforded  advanced  pupils  in  reading  the 
Chureh  service  in  parish  churches  and  missions,  after  being 
licensed  to  do  so,  in  speaking  before  parish  Men’s  Clubs, 
and  in  raising  money  for  the  support  of  the  schools  them¬ 
selves.  Extension  work  is  afforded  in  suburban  missions. 
Students  are  trained  for  volunteer  work  only. 

The  Schools  not  only  teach  laymen  to  work,  and  afford 
them  practice  in  it,  but  they  teach  that  long  neglected  study. 
Church  economics.  They  do  even  more.  They  attract 

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laymen  to  them.  Many  laymen  desire  to  know  how  to 
work  for  the  Church.  Coming  to  be  taught,  they  remain 
to  hear  plans,  and  soon  an  interested  corps  of  workers 
results. 

The  Church  extension,  the  oldest  and  largest  form  of 
effort,  deserves  a  fuller  account.  Always  obeying  laws  of 
their  Dioceses  governing  the  founding  of  new  places  of 
worship,  and  under  direction  of  the  proper  authorities, 
laymen  belonging  to  these  organizations,  licensed  as  lay 
readers  and  often  graduates  of  the  .training  schools,  go 
into  small  towns  or  suburbs  of  their  cities  and  make  door 
to  door  canvasses.  They  do  not  seek  Episcopal  Church 
families  exclusively  or  especially.  Rather  they  seek  fam¬ 
ilies  having  children  not  attending  Sunday  Schools,  and 
families  not  having  Church  homes.  Usually  they  make 
their  appeal  to  men  who  are  interested  in  the  upbuild¬ 
ing  of  the  community,  and  often  bring  together  men 
to  vote  to  start  and  support  the  venture,  no  women  being 
present  at  the  initial  business  session.  Services  are  held 
in  parlors,  rented  halls  or  vacant  store  rooms.  Expository 
Bible  readings  are  given  sometimes  in  place  of  sermons. 
That  is,  the  Bible  is  taught  as  it  would  be  in  a  class. 

The  start  is  almost  invariably  made  in  a  small  way. 
Often  rental  of  only  $5  a  month  is  paid.  One  New  York 
mission  rented  the  rear  of  a  stable  and  paid  $3  a  month. 
The  people  themselves  bear  all  of  the  expense  of  main¬ 
tenance,  and  often  the  cost  of  fitting  up  the  room  as  well. 
Thus  self  support  and  local  self  government  are  secured 
from  the  start.  Sometimes  three  in  four  of  the  persons 
enrolled  are  not  Episcopalians,  showing  that  the  crux  of 
Church  extension  in  almost  any  suburb  is  not  the  finding 
of  well  to  do  'Episcopal  families  but  the  going  into  that 
suburb  of  a  leader  who  will  teach  the  Gospel,  use  the  Book 
of  Common  Prayer,  counsel  the  people  while  they  accumu¬ 
late  funds,  put  their  organized  work  into  wise  shape,  and 
bring  a  parish  into  existence.  Laymen  in  this  work  are 
business  and  professional  men,  and  they  invariably  serve 
without  stipends.  When  their  work  has  advanced  to  the 
point  of  self  support,  including  the  salary  of  a  rector,  a 
parish  is  organized,  a  priest  called,  and  the  volunteer  lay¬ 
man  retires,  his  work  accomplished. 

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WORTH  THEIR  COST 

Church  Summer  Conferences  H elp  Education, 
Bible  and  Mission  Study 


PERMANENT  LOCATION  NEEDED 

Northfield,  Silver  Bay,  Winona,  the  Chautauquas  and 
similar  Summer  vacation  places  have  been  of  much  help 
to  the  educational  and  missionary  work  of  religious  bodies 
in  America.  All  of  them  are  crowded  each  Summer  with 
leaders  and  general  workers.  Five  years  ago  the  American 
Church  Missionary  Society,  an  Auxiliary  of  the  Board  of 
Missions,  started  a  Church  Summer  Conference  at  Rich¬ 
field  Springs.  The  same  year  Miss  Lucy  C.  Jarvis  of  the 
Connecticut  Woman’s  Auxiliary  started  a  Church  Summer 
School  at  New  Milford,  Conn.  A  year  later,  when  the 
Society  transferred  its  Brazil  and  Cuba  Missions  to  the 
Board  it  transferred  its  Summer  Conference  to  the  Seabury 
Society  of  New  York.  A  year  later  still.  Miss  Jarvis  trans¬ 
ferred  the  New  Milford  School  to  the  same  Society. 

Succeeding  Church  Conferences  have  used  the  halls  of 
Smith  College,  St.  Faith’s  and  the  Kent  Schools,  and  for 
1909  have  been  invited  to  use  St.  John’s  Chapel  and  the 
Refectory  of  the  Episcopal  Theological  School  at  Cam¬ 
bridge,  Mass.  The  invitation  has  been  accepted  and  the 
dates,  July  17  to  August  i,  fixed.  Among  the  teachers  this 
year  will  be  the.  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Hart,  the  Rev.  Harvey 
Officer,  Jr.,  the  Rev.  Samuel  R.  Colladay,  and  the  Rev. 
Everett  P.  Smith.  It  is  expected  that  a  Stag  Outing  for 
men  only  will  be  held  during  the  first  two  weeks  of  August, 
but  the  place  for  holding  it  cannot  be  announced  before 
March. 

These  Church  Conferences  are  intended  chiefly  for  lead¬ 
ers  in  Woman’s  Auxiliary,  Laymen’s  Leagues  and  Sea¬ 
bury  Societies,  Sunday  School  Commissions,  and  the  miS' 
sion  study  work  of  the  Educational  Secretary  of  the  Board 
of  Missions.  Classes  are  held  mornings,  and  afternoons 
are  left  open  for  recreation.  Those  who  attend  this  Sea¬ 
bury  Conference  come  from  New  England,  New  York, 
Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  Maryland  and  Virginia,  with 
a  very  few  from  the  Middle  West. 

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Attendance  at  'present  Conferences,  especially  that  of 
the  Seabury,  has  outgrown  borrowed  accommodations,  and 
permanent  quarters,  larger  in  size,  must  be  provided.  Not 
only  so,  but  Sunday  School  Commissions  of  two  Dioceses 
desire  dates,  and  there  is  a  growing  number 'of  Christian 
Socialist  workers  who  wish  a  week-end  date.  Of  the  value 
to  the  Church  and  her  missionary  work  there  is  no  ques¬ 
tion. 

By  resolution  adopted  at  the  Conferences  of  1908  the 
Society  was  authorized  to  appoint  committees  on  attendance 
and  permanent  location  of  future  Conferences.  The  So¬ 
ciety  has  named : 

Albany — Mrs.  H.  W.  Thompson,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Cooke ; 
Central  New  York — Mrs.  C.  G.  Irish;  Central  Pennsyl¬ 
vania — Mrs.  Rogers  Israel,  Mrs.  D.  W.  Coxe,  Miss  Lois 
Sancton ;  Connecticut — Mrs.  H.  F.  Giraud,  Mrs.  R.  W. 
Woodward,  Miss  E.  J.  Plympton,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Barbour, 
Miss  Jennie  A.  Pratt,  Miss  Frances  E.  Cole;  Long  Island — 
Mrs.  J.  L.  Hutchins,  Mrs.  F.  W.  Norris,  Miss  E.  L.  Smith. 

Massachusetts — Miss  Elizabeth  H.  Houghton,  Miss 
Josephine  T.  Bumstead,  Miss  Marian  DeC.  Ward,  Miss 
Mary  T.  Spalding,  Miss  L.  A.  Williams,  Mrs.  H.  H.  Eddy; 
Maryland — Mrs.  A.  L.  Sioussat,  Miss  Mary  Williams ; 
Michigan  City — Miss  Clara  Edgerton  ;  Newark — Miss 
Estelle  C.  Ogden,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Ashman,  Miss  Anna  Roches¬ 
ter,  Miss  Eliza  O.  Hoyt;  New  Jersey — the  Misses  Roberts. 
Miss  Mary  R.  Wood. 

New  York — Mrs.  Mary  E.  Watson,  Miss  Mary  E. 
Thomas,  Miss  E.  J.  Wheeler ;  North  Carolina — Mrs.  F.  E. 
Mosley;  Pennsylvania — Miss  Mary  Bbkiston,  Miss  A.  W. 
Fisher,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Lane  Mrs.  Daniel  S.  Merritt,  Miss 
Katherine  D.  Parry;  Rhode  Island — Miss  Edna  R.  Gar¬ 
diner,  Miss  Mary  B.  Anthony;  Vermont — Mrs.  A.  G.  Cobb, 
Mrs.  A.  D.  Brown;  Virginia — Miss  S^llie  Stuart;  Western 
Massachusetts — Miss  Marion  L.  Cole ;  Wes<:ern  New 
York — Miss  Lucy  G.  Arnold. 

Bridgeport — Judge  R.  W.  DeForest ;  Pittsburg — Rev. 
Robert  N.  Meade;  New  Haven — Frank  Westervelt;  Water- 
bury — H.  H.  Hemingway ;  Rochester — Charles  F.  Sault ; 
New  York — Louis  O.  Morny;  Mt.  Vernon — Clarence  S. 
McClellan,  Jr.;  Philadelphia — William  B.  Abbey;  Bing¬ 
hamton — Myron  C.  Beeman ;  Newark — Wm.  S.  B.  Dana. 

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FINANCIAL  SUPPORTERS 

Some  Leaders  of  the  Church  Giving  This 
Work  Money  Backing 

FIFTEEN  CITIES  HELP  THIS  YEAR 

That  many  leading  men  and  women  in  the  Church  believe 
in  the  effort  to  enlist  and  instruct  laymen  personally  to  help 
the  Church’s  missionary  work  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
they  have  contributed  money  to  pay  the.  small  but  necessary 
expenses  connected  with  this  effort  to  that  end.  Only  a 
few  names  can  be  given  out  of  many. 

Bishop  Tuttle,  of  Missouri,  the  Presiding  Bishop,  and 
president  of  the  Board  of  Missions,  Bishop  Greer  of  New 
York,  Bishop  Darlington  of  Harrisburg,  the  'Rev.  Dr. 
McKim,  president  of  the  House  of  Deputies  of  the  General 
Convention,  the.  Archdeacon  of  New  York,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Grosvenor,  president  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  New 
York,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Huntington  of  Grace  Church,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Manning,  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Stires, 
St.  Thomas. 

The.  Rev.  Dr.  Clendenin,  St.  Peter’s,  the  Rev.  Hugh 
Birchhead,  St.  George’s,  Bishop  Courtney  of  St.  James 
Church,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Parks,  St.  Bartholomew’s,  the  Rev. 
Geo.  Alex.  Strong,  Christ  Church,  the  Rev.  Percy  S.  Grant 
of  the  Ascension,  the.  Vicars  of  Intercession  and  St.  Paul’s 
Chapels,  Trinity  parish,  New  York,  the  Rev.  Dr.  W.  H. 
Van  Allen,  the  Advent,  Boston,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Mann,  Trinity, 
Boston,  the  Rev.  H.  M.  Medary,  the  Advocate,  Philadelphia. 

Messrs.  J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  R.  Fulton  Cutting,  Francis 
Lynde.  Stetson,  president  of  'the  New  York  Church  Club, 
Hon.  Everett  P.  Wheeler,  J.  Hull  Browning,  Ellicott  D. 
Curtis,  Wm.  Jay  Schieffelin,  Ph.  D.,  Robert  W.  Tailer,  E. 
.  P.  Dutton,  George  McCulloch  Miller,  James  May  Duane, 
Col.  John  T.  Lockman,  James  H.  Canfield,  LL.  D.,  librarian 
of  Columbia  University,  George  Zabriskie,  New  York, 
Messrs.  George  Wharton  Pepper,  John  S.  Newbold 
Edward  H.  Bonsall,  Arthur  E.  Newbold  and  Clinton 
Rogers  Woodruff,  Philadelphia;  Hon.  Robert  Treat  Paine, 
Boston,  William  H.  Reeves,  Phoeuixville,  Pa  ,  H.  H.  Mc- 
Clintic,  John  S.  McCormTk,  Harvey  H.  Smith  and  H.  D. 
W.  English,  Pittsburg,  Thomas  R.  Proctor,  Utica. 

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Messrs.  Spencer  Trask,  and  Andrew  B.  Jones,  Albany, 
George  B.  Cliiett,  Saratoga  Springs,  George  Gordon  King, 
Mrs.  Edwin  Parsons,  Mrs.  W.  F.  Cochran,  Mrs  R.  T. 
Auchmuty,  Mrs.  Richard  M.  Hoe,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Van  Ingen, 
Mrs.  Spencer  Aldrich,  New  York,  and  many  others. 

Laymen  of  the  following  cities  have  pledged  financial 
support  to  extension  work  of  the  Church  Laymen’s  LFnion, 
because  acquainted  with  plans  and  approving  of  them: 
Worcester,  New  Haven,  Brooklyn,  The  Oranges,  Phila¬ 
delphia,  Buffalo,  Rochester,  Syracuse,  Binghamton  and 
Pittsburg.  Money  contributed  from  outside  of  New  York 
is  not  used  for  work  in  that  city.  New  York  laymen  sup¬ 
port  their  own  work  and  contribute  to  the  national  cam¬ 
paign  besides. 


CITY  CENTRES 

Three  Just  Organized  and  Several  Others 

Soon  to  Be  Formed 


Ten  missionary  organizations  in  as  many  cites  are  feder¬ 
ated  with  the  Church  Laymen’s  Union.  With  dates  of  or¬ 
ganization  and  officers  they  are : 

1.  The  Laymen’s  Missionary  League  of  Pittsburgh.  Or^ 
ganized  1889-90.  President,  N.  P.  Hyndman,  vice-presi¬ 
dent,  Harvey  H.  Smith,  secretary,  Alfred  G.  T^oyd,  record¬ 
ing  secretary,  C.  B.  Church,  treasurer,  Jos.  A.  Knox,  Chap¬ 
lain,  the  Rev.  Robert  N.  Meade,  Archdeacon  of  Pittsburgh. 

2.  The  Laymen’s  Missionary  League  of  Buffalo.  Or¬ 
ganized  1891.  President,  H.  C.  Spendelow,  Secretary,  W. 
E.  Townsend,  treasurer,  George  A.  Stringer,  superintend¬ 
ent,  George  T.  Ballachey. 

3.  The  Seabury  Society  of  New  York.  Organized  as 
the  Lay  Helpers  Association,  1900.  Present  name  adooted 
1905.  President,  Eugene  M.  Camp,  Secretary,  Robert  L. 
Davis,  field  secretary,  Robert  R.  Morgan,  treasurer,  John  A. 
Ely.  The  Society  is  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  and  has  nine  trustees. 

4.  The  Lay  Readers  Association  of  Louisville.  Organ¬ 
ized  1905  and  forming  a  part  of  the  Laymen’s  League  of 
Louisville.  President,  Wm.  A.  Robinson,  Secretary,  Henry 
Gray. 


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5-  The  Laymen’s  Missionary  League  of  Baltimore.  Or¬ 
ganized  1906.  Its  only  officer  is  a  Chaplain,  the  Rev.  R. 
F.  Humphries. 

6.  The  Seabury  Society  of  Springfield.  Organized  1906. 
President,  F.  M.  Pudan,  Secretary,  L.  A.  Gregg,  treasurer, 

F.  Tracey  Brand. 

7.  The  Seabury  Society  of  Bridgeport.  Organized  1907. 
President,  Hon.  Robert  W.  De  Forest,  Secretary,  Clarence 
W.  Foote,  treasurer,  H.  B.  Terrell. 

8.  The  St.  Philip  Society  of  Syracuse.  Organized  1908. 
President,  Joseph  H.  Osborne,  vice-president,  Frederick 
Hooker,  M.  D.,  Secretary,  Rev.  Dr.  I.  M.  Merlinjones, 
treasurer,  Paul  P.  Halbig,  and  executive  committee  the 
foregoing  and  Earl  C.  Schmeiser,  A.  A.  West  and  Dr. 
Hamil. 

9.  The  Seabury  Society  of  Erie.  Organized  1908.  Pres¬ 
ident,  C.  E.  Zinram,  vice-president,  C.  G.  Irish,  Secretary, 
Malcolm  McCormick,  treasurer,  J.  K.  Hough. 

10.  The  St.  Mark’s  League  of  Wheeling.  Organized 
1908.  President,  Robert  Lee  Boyd,  Executive  Committee, 

G.  A.  Aschman,  M.  D.,  Joseph  King,  St.  Matthew’s,  J.  D. 
McGranahan,  St.  Luke’s,  Andrew  Diehl,  St.  Andrew’s, 
S.  P.  Norton,  St.  Paul’s. 


Finally:  THE  NEXT  THING 

This  Hand  Book  sacrifices  much  to  brevity.  It  is  made 
for  busy  men.  Many  matters  of  tremendous  importance 
are  treated  in  few  words.  It  is  impossible  to  do  otherwise. 
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for  which  financial  appeals  are  made.  For  addresses 
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